PHP Artisan Migrate with MAMP and Unix Socket

Question

I was developing my application originally in Laravel 4.2 but have since decided to move it to the 5.0 version so that it covers a lot more changes and strengths that 5.0 has ov

Answer 1

Try this:

'mysql' => array(
'driver'    => 'mysql',
'unix_socket'   => getenv('UNIX_SOCKET'),
'host'      => getenv('DB_HOST'),
...
),

In .env add

UNIX_SOCKET=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock